This could be good news for the people who travel to the hilly state of Uttarakhand to visit religious places like Kedarnath and Badrinath. The Central government has approved a project to install ultra modern weather station in the state. “The Central government has already given its nod to a project worth Rs 116 crore for installing a state-of-the-art automatic weather station and radar in the state, said Subhash Kumar, chief secretary of the state after meeting with the officials from the Indian Meteorological Department on Thursday in Dehradun.
Under the project, the Indian Meteorological Department is preparing to install three doplar radars, 75 rain gauge metres, five micro rain radars, 4 compact radars, 75 weather stations besides introducing a helicopter support weather system in the state to improve the weather warning system and make precise forecasts, said IMD Managing Director L S Rathore who was in Dehradun to find a land for the purpose.
Since last June when a natural calamity of catastrophic proportions hit the state, the government has been demanding from the Centre to take effective steps to tone up the weather warning system in the state.
Last year, monsoon in India had covered substantial parts of the country spreading over 10 states extending from Bihar to Rajasthan between 14th and 16th June thereby completing onset one month before the normal dates. This had caused a natural calamity of catastrophic proportions killing more than 5000 people in flash floods.
The state is currently witnessing an influx of thousands of pilgrims who are here on the Char Dham Yatra which started on 2nd of May.
